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02/02/2023

Cathy McMorris Rodgers will take control of the Energy and Commerce Committee after receiving more money from oil and gas PACs than any other House Republican

Cathy McMorris Rodgers will take control of the Energy and Commerce Committee after receiving more money from oil and gas PACs than any other House Republican.

25/10/2021

Farmer leaders say that the probe into the Lakhimpur Kheri violence cannot be rightly done till the accused’s father Ajay Mishra resigns from his post of MoS Home Affairs.

28/09/2021

Towards a collective, lyric

12/09/2021

Laursen thinks anger at how the 2015 ratification was handled — workers got only a couple hours to review the union’s summary of contract “highlights” before voting — and members’ frustration over the UAW corruption scandals make a strike more likely.
“The membership is really divided politically,” he said. “It depends on what flavor of corporate media you’re watching. I will tell you, the one commonality that we all share is everybody’s sick of Deere and sick of the [UAW] International and ready to stick it to them.”

Workers at the farm equipment manufacturer have serious grievances with pay, health care and contract negotiations.

12/08/2021

Many authors and publishers now see the social networking site as a "necessary evil"

26/07/2021

and it was not reported

"How can we have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness when we live in constant fear of illness, bankruptcy, or homelessness because of the outrageous for-profit healthcare system?"

12/01/2021

Government use of facial recognition crosses a bright red line, and we should not normalize its use, even during a national tragedy.

After last week’s violent attack on the Capitol, law enforcement is working overtime to identify the perpetrators. This is critical to accountability for the attempted insurrection. Law enforcement has many, many tools at their disposal to do this, especially given the very public nature of most o...

14/11/2020

Features and Stories ‘A New Dawn’: How four young Black activists powered movement to remove Confederate emblem from Mississippi flag November 13, 2020 Liz Vinson On the day of the demonstration, Jarrius Adams stood in front of the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion in Jackson, where the state fla...

10/09/2020

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01/08/2020

23/07/2020

“It’s hard to breathe, it’s a lot harder to breathe than I thought,” Wheeler said. “This is abhorrent. This is beneath us.”

16/07/2020

The Twitter accounts of several prominent figures appeared to have been hacked — including Joe Biden, Kanye West, Bill Gates and Elon Musk.
The accounts sent messages related to cyptocurrency, with most of the messages promising to double the money of anyone who sent Bitcoin to a specific cryptocurrency wallet.

In a major show of force, hackers breached some of the site’s most prominent accounts, a Who’s Who of Americans in politics, entertainment and tech.

04/07/2020

Trump spent a lot of time talking about statues.

04/06/2020

3 self-proclaimed members of the far-right 'boogaloo' movement were arrested on domestic terrorism charges for trying to spark violence during protests

“3 self-proclaimed members of the far-right 'boogaloo' movement were arrested on domestic terrorism charges for trying to spark violence during protests https://t.co/bhb7bw5T4E”

30/05/2020

Last month Zagg Inc, a Utah-based company that makes mobile device accessories, received more than $9.4 million in cash from a U.S. government program that has provided emergency loans to millions of businesses hit by the coronavirus.

25/05/2020

and they ask how we could afford medicare for all

The Federal Reserve has moved with unprecedented force and speed to pump huge amounts of cash into the financial system to ease disruptions that have escalated since the viral outbreak.

10/05/2020

The Native American tribe has the highest per-capita infection rate after New York and New Jersey but has a fraction of the resourcesEvery day the president of the Navajo nation provides a coronavirus update, and every day there’s more bad news.The Native American tribe now has the highest per-cap...

08/05/2020

05/05/2020

oh for cripes sake

There is strong evidence that Juan Guaidó and the U.S. government were intimately involved in a botched weekend coup attempt in Venezuela.

04/05/2020

Stone, a longtime friend to Donald Trump, ran a sprawling network of fake Facebook accounts starting in 2016, according to newly unsealed FBI records.

30/04/2020

Samera al-Huri’s fellow activists were disappearing, one by one. When she asked their families, each gave the same cryptic reply: “She’s traveling.” A few of the women re-emerged. But they seemed broken and refused to say where they had been for months.
Al-Huri soon found out.
A dozen officers from the Houthi rebels who control northern Yemen snatched her from her home in the capital, Sanaa, at dawn.
They took her to the basement of a converted school, its filthy cells filled with female detainees. Interrogators beat her bloody, gave her electrical shocks and, as psychological torture, scheduled her ex*****on only to call it off last-minute.

CAIRO (AP) — Samera al-Huri’s fellow activists were disappearing, one by one. When she asked their families, each gave the same cryptic reply: “She’s traveling.” A few of the women re-emerged. But...

28/04/2020

Theories usually focus on the diversity of future generations, but some researchers find compelling explanations in the immediate benefits to individuals.

Why did s*x evolve? Theories usually focus on the diversity of future generations, but some researchers find compelling explanations in the immediate benefits to individuals.

28/04/2020

A new study published last week confirms what we already knew about oil and gas in the Permian Basin. It's an unmitigated disaster.

25/04/2020

Two Colombian social leaders in preventive custody talk about how the prison crisis and the coronavirus pandemic is affecting them.

17/04/2020

At least 43,000 American millionaires who are too rich to get coronavirus stimulus checks are getting a far bigger boost — averaging $1.6 million each, according to a congressional committee.

16/04/2020

Amazon fired three workers who challenged the company’s failure to ensure safe working conditions during the pandemic.

09/04/2020

As Minnesota Governor Tim Walz readies a plan to extend Minnesota's stay at home order on Wednesday, he's consulting a panel of experts, including renowned infectious disease specialist, Dr. Michael Osterholm, to devise a long-term path forward. "I think what we've learned is there are ways we can c...

04/04/2020

It’s a fact that undocumented workers are part of the backbone of numerous U.S. industries and pay $12 billion in local and state taxes every year. Yet they’ve been unfairly shut out of important coronavirus legislation, including up to $1,200 in cash...

19/03/2020

A group of Italian volunteers distributed 3D-printed versions of a vital medical device — but it’s unclear if the original manufacturer threatened a legal crackdown. As we reported earlier, Cristian Fracassi and Alessandro Romaioli used their 3D printer to create unofficial copies of a patented valve, which was in short supply at Italian hospitals. Business Insider Italia quoted Massimo Temporelli, the Italian professor who recruited the pair, saying that the device maker threatened them with an infringement claim.

The 3D printed valves have saved 10 patients so far.

12/03/2020